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Filling station owner booked for axing trees
Chandigarh, January 18
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation today lodged an FIR against the owner of Gurdyal Singh and Sons petrol station in Sector 22 for “cutting trees without taking permission from the competent authorities”.
MC budget
Focus on new schools, revamp of old ones
Chandigarh, January 18
The municipal corporation has accorded top priority to setting up new schools and renovating existing ones in its proposed budget for the next fiscal (2011-12). Six new primary schools are proposed to be set up in the city and their sites will be finalized from among the existing 18 earmarked for schools by the Chandigarh Housing Board.
Plan Expenditure & Progress
HS takes stock
Chandigarh, January 18
Home Secretary Ram Niwas yesterday held meetings with various departments to review the plan expenditure and progress of major works.
In the first meeting, it was stated that the education department had spent an amount of ` 3309.59 lakh on upgradation of schools.
Subsidised Onions
Admn’s stall a big draw
Chandigarh, January 18
In a first of its kind initiative, the UT administration’s food & supplies department in conjunction with the Manimajra Cooperative Society today put up a stall to provide onions to city residents at subsidized rates.
Over a tonne of onions were sold out in six hours at the stall, put up in the Sector 26 grain market near the market committee office.
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More Tears: Residents queue
up at a stall selling subsidised onions at the grain market in Sector 26,
Chandigarh, on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
‘Lohakut’ staged to perfection
Chandigarh, January 18
Popular Punjabi play “Lohakut” was staged to perfection by the host TFT Theatre Group on the second day of the ongoing sixth TFT Winter National Festival at the Tagore Theatre here today.
The standing ovation given by intrusive audience after the play was indeed a testimony to the incredible literary classic play scripted by legendary playwright Balwant Gargi.
Artistes perform the play ‘Lohakut’ at the Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Tribune photo: Parvesh Chauhan
Rs 1.66 cr for upgrade of Mountview rooms
Chandigarh, January 18
CITCO’s only five star hotel, Hotel Mountview, is all set to provide facilities and amenities on a par with international standards to its clients as the organisation plans to spend ` 1.66 crore to redo certain rooms in
the hotel.
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Gridlock |
Vehicles caught in a traffic jam at Matka Chowk in Chandigarh on Tuesday.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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Chilly still but respite in sight
Punjab, Haryana colder than city
Chandigarh, January 18
Icy winds from the northern region kept temperatures below average here today, but the weatherman has predicted a slight respite in the coming days.
Tuesday’s maximum temperature was recorded at 18.0 °C, three notches below the average for this time of the season, while the minimum was at 4.3 °C, two notches below average but marginally lower that yesterday’s 4.7 °C, an official of the India Meteorological Department
(IMD) said.
Sanitation Work
MC fails to allot contract even as deadline nears
Mohali, January 18
Failing to understand the gravity of the situation, the Mohali civic body has yet not allocated the work of sanitation on contract for another year even when the two-month extended period is due to end in a week’s time. Another extension will have to be given to keep the work going.
Now, ID must to surf Internet in Panchkula
Panchkula, January 18
The district administration here today prohibited the use of cyber cafes by persons whose identity could not be established.
District Magistrate (DM) Ashima Brar while proclaiming the order directed cyber café owners to check visitors’ identity proofs and maintain a daily ‘in and out’ register recording their name, address and telephone number. The time of logging in and logging off for each Internet users will have to be recorded on the register.
Pruning of unkempt branches begins
Mohali, January 18
In a significant decision, the horticulture wing of the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority
(GMADA) has begun pruning of unkempt branches of fully-grown trees that are leaning towards roadside.
Around 15,000 trees along different roads have been identified under the exercise.
Due to mind-less chopping by the electricity department to protect overhead power cables, scattered branches of hundreds of trees have not only become a threat to commuters, but have also blocked streetlights.
Pruned branches along the road dividing Phases 3B1 and 4 in
Mohali. Tribune photos: Vicky Gharu
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Noble Gesture |
Differently abled children being given prosthetics at a camp in Sector 10, Chandigarh.
Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan
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Giving Shamlat Land on Lease
Residents of Sanoli village protest
Zirakpur, January 18
Congress leader Dipinder Singh Dhillon and residents of Sanoli village today staged a protest against handing over of 23-acre village shamlat land to a private educational institution on lease by a sarpanch and three panchayat members in connivance with the local panchayat department officials.
Levelling allegations against the SAD-BJP government, Dhillon alleged that state government had ignored interest of the villagers while giving the prime land worth crores of rupees for 33 years on lease.
Admn gives Rs 1 lakh to family
Chandigarh, January 18
Deputy Commissioner Brijendra Singh has issued ` 1 lakh to the family of Khushpreet Singh as ex
gratia. ML Sharma, who is conducting the magisterial probe, has recorded the statements of Khushpreet’s relatives, members of various social
organisations, police officials of the Sector 34 police station and inspected the scene where the ransom was paid.
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PU to provide advisory services to budding entrepreneurs
Chandigarh, January 18
Expanding its character from being an academic institution to providing expert consultative services also, Panjab University’s newly incepted entrepreneurship cell will now provide advisory services to students interested in setting up their own business.
PU VC gets Swami Vivekananda award
Chandigarh,
January 18
Panjab University Vice-Chancellor RC Sobti has been awarded
the prestigious Swami Vivekananda National Award-2011 for education in
recognition of his contribution towards establishing institutions of
scientific excellence and making Panjab University a leading university
in biomedical sciences.
UIET students bring laurels to PU
Win first prize in ‘Robowars’
Chandigarh, January 18
“PU Junkies”, a team of six third-year mechanical engineering students of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology
(UIET), Panjab University, along with their robot christened “Blade” won the first prize in the “Robowars” held recently at “Techfest” hosted by
IIT, Mumbai, which is among the largest technology festivals held in Asian colleges.
Fine arts dept renamed
Patiala, January 18
Punjabi University’s department of fine arts has been renamed as S Sobha Singh department of fine arts. This was announced by university Vice-Chancellor Dr Jaspal Singh during a function on the university campus here yesterday.
PU NOTES
Experts dwell on importance of public health
Chandigarh, January 18
The two-day national seminar on “Sustainable development and public health in India” organised by the Centre for Public Health
(IEAST), Panjab University, concluded today with several delegates from different public health institutions from across India participating in the seminar.
Astrophysicist from US in city
Chandigarh, January 18
Dr Priyamvada Natarajan, from department of astronomy and physics, Yale University, USA, who was in the city to interact with faculty members of Chitkara University said: “Often we don’t teach students how to learn, instead the emphasis is on clearing one particular examination.”
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SHO dies of cardiac arrest
